roughshod » roughshot

Middle class America did show this nation that the corporations and the wealthy in this country should no longer run roughshot, and legally outspend to purchase innocence. However, what will the ‘official Christian perspective’ say? (link)

Uh dude!!!! Ashcroft is not riding roughshot over state anything. Ashcroft is perfectly within his rights to order his subordinates (US Attorneys) to seek the death penalty. (TalkLeft, comment)

The island from which Japanese fighters were able to run roughshot over Allied bombers on their way to Japan, now served as a safe haven for wounded planes returning from combat, saving (astonishingly) many more American lives than were cost in the battle. (link)

Commentaries

I’ve heard the use of the phrase “waiting for the other (should be: the last)
shoe to drop”
and the context shows that the metaphor is not understood. This phrase
refers to riding a horse through the desert and three shoes have already
dropped, the horse is nearly lame, and when the last shoe drops, the horse
will not be able to go any further. It’s a beautiful metaphor for some
situations, but people use it to describe a moment of anticipation or
terror that is completely inappropriate. And the peave is: they think
there are only two shoes. I guess they don’t know about a horse having
four shoes.